For The Love Of Crafting Blog Hop

For The Love of Crafting Blog Hop

Hello Thanks for popping in today

My name is Donna Gray I am a Stampin Up! Demonstrator in NSW Australia I have only been a demonstrator for nearly 2 years & I was lucky enough to be invited to join this wonderful blog hop with all of the other very talented Stampin Up Demonstrators from around the world

So for my first project I have used the stamp set that we all got in our bags at on stage in Sydney at Luna Park in April called Animal Outing I was so excited to finally see a cute Kangaroo as well as the Giraffe & the Rhino as well What a cute little animal set which can be found on page 27 of a new & exciting Annual Catalogue
It is so much fun attending On Stage where you get to see the new catalogue & play with new products As an added bonus you get free stamp sets prize patrols & lots of giveaways What a wonderful Company Stampin Up! is to do all this to celebrate our work we do sharing our love of crafting & beautiful products

I started off with a Crumb Cake Card Stock base as I felt this stamp set should reflect our beautiful earthy tones

I stamped the kangaroo in our new ink colour Grey Granite which to me is a mixture of our Smokey Slate & Sahara Sand colours so it created a lovely blend of greys & browns I then shaded with my Light & Dark Smokey Slate blends to give the kangaroo a bit of colour To keep the brownish Grey tones happening I also added some of my Dark Crumb Cake blend to the shaded areas I stamped my cute Thank You Big Time sentiment in our new returning colour Blackberry Bliss which I am sure will be my favorite colour for sure I loved it so much that I decided to layer the Stamped Whisper White layer on top of some of our Blackberry Bliss Card Stock to add a punch of colour to the card along with a 1" strip of Blackberry Bliss Card stock running vertically down the length of the card
I also spritzed with my Bronze Blends Marker to add some texture to my card

For my second project I decided to use the Rooted In Nature Stamp set that can be located on pg 143 of our new catalogue If you are a Lovely As A Tree Stamp Set you are sure to love this stamp set with its trees leaves & large big bold sentiments it will be a collector for sure
This was not my original idea I have cased this card from a card that the talented Demonstrator Dena Rekow made a while back but I loved it so much I wanted to create one similar

So I have once again used Crumb Cake Card Stock as my base I have used water colour paper to stamp my leaf images on using full strength ink on some & half strength ink on others to get a varied colour I then went over the stamped leaves with my aqua painter to spread the ink around
I have layered my stamped piece of water colour paper up on some old olive card stock & added a bow using our Pear Pizzaz Shimmer ribbon
I just love the bold sentiment stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black in to add a bold look So once again thanks to Dena Rekow for the creative inspiration
All items are available for purchase through my online store you will see the list at the bottom of this post If you click on the images it will direct to to my online shopping page
Please note some items will not be available for purchase until our new Catalogue goes live in 1st June 2018
I have also added some other pictures below using this wonderful Rooted in Nature stamp set I sure do love it & I am sure you will too.....

I hope I have inspired you today to do some crafting
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Please keep the blog hop going by clicking on the arrow below to go to the next on the list the talented Jessie Holton's blog
Thanks for hopping with us today....

For The Love Of Creating with Stampin' Up! quarterly Blog Hop

1.	Kim Oliver - Australia
2.	Donna Gray-Australia
3.	Jessie Holton
4.	Waltraud Hattinger - Germany
5.	Pia Gerhardt - Germany
6.	Kayla MacAulay - Australia
7.	Alejandra Gomez - USA
8.	Wendy Lee - USA